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"The big event for the euro is obviously Sunday’s German election. Polls currently place CDU/CSU in the lead with around 30%, followed by the far-right AfD at 20% and the outgoing SPD at 15%. Markets ...

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More than half a million newly naturalized citizens will be able to vote in Germany’s national election for the first time this weekend.

More than half a million newly naturalized citizens will be able to vote in Germany’s national election for the first time this weekend ...

As Germany prepares to vote on 23 February, the far-right AfD party is causing alarm. Polls place them in second position, behind only the centre-right CDU and ahead of the centre-left SPD. In ...

Germany has a complicated system in which voters get two votes, one for the candidate in their own constituency, and another for a party's electoral list. There's also a minimum 5% threshold for a ...

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For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh.

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years.